Chapter 31: The Plum Tree and the Nine Differences
"Meow!" The cat roared again, this time it was even more poignant and piercing than just now, and I shuddered; I could see that the faint face on the trunk of the plum tree had begun to frown, but the fork of the plum tree just refused to let go of my arm, and after a moment of stalemate, the strength of my feet suddenly loosened, and my whole body was planted headlong into the plum tree crown because of inertia.
The branches immediately said that I was surrounded and flattened, and my limbs were fixed and could not move, and the whole person was lying on a large thick branch, and the face that had just loomed on the trunk of the tree slowly moved up and disappeared at this time; Then a few forks of the tree froze in front of me, and slowly moved closer to the face of the person just now.
"Little handsome guy, you are so beautiful, I like your eyes so much, can you give them to me?" The face slowly approached me and made eye contact with me, and I was so panicked that my eyes widened and I didn't know what to do, but I closed my eyes in fright when I heard her eyes want mine, but out of the corner of my eye, I saw a fork of a tree approaching at a rapid pace from both sides of my body.
I was secretly glad that I closed my eyes, and the sharp tips of the branches fixed on my eyelids and did not move, but my whole body instinctively scared and kept shivering, and if my body was in a cold sweat, because if the fork was a little deeper, my eyeballs would be gouged out by her!
"Little handsome guy, where have you been? I can smell your scent, come out, you can't last long with your Dao stealth technique! Well, as long as you come out, I promise you will only eat you one eye! "The whole plum tree was making sounds, like stereo sound echoing back and forth in my ears, and I understood it right away. As long as I don't open my eyes, I'll be safe and fine.
"Little handsome guy! Come out, your eyes won't taste good if your spiritual power is exhausted! Ha ha! My territory, I persuade you with a good voice. Don't you listen, do you have to let me eat stale ingredients? It's not good for anyone to spend like this! Let's talk about a condition, I only need you one eye, and as long as you come out, I'll let you go back! "I was tighter than the branches that bound me, and I could not make a sound or open my eyes, and the whole plum tree vibrated with her voice, and the two forks that were fixed on my eyelids slowly moved away. Then there appeared to be a face, bumpy and rough, but her nose and mouth could be felt. Slowly approaching and rubbing back and forth against my face, and even stopping for a long time at the place where my eyes were located, as if feeling the temperature.
Silence, deathly silence. The atmosphere was unprecedentedly tense. She stayed on my eyes longer and longer, for fear that she would suddenly notice that something was wrong and gouge out my eyes with a fork; Fortunately, I successfully passed the concave and convex feeling slowly left my eyes, and the branches that bound me began to loosen, and I was relieved and began to think of how to escape, because I didn't dare to open my eyes, so I didn't know what was going on around and under the tree except for the fork I was lying on, but I didn't have the confidence to slide directly from the fork to the ground.
Minutes and seconds passed, and I don't know how long I had been lying on the fork of the tree, and I thought I was safe. But the fork of the tree lying behind me suddenly retracted, and my whole body suddenly hung in the air and fell from a high place. A strong sense of falling hit, scared my eyes opened suddenly, and there was a drag on my ankle immediately dragged me out of the fork, but immediately there was a situation just now, the fork suddenly stretched out and stuck my arm, I began to panic, I opened my eyes and was found by the plum tree, I won't be dragged away by grandpa's spell if I don't open my eyes, what can I do now? Are your eyes open or closed?
"Meow! Oh! Just when the two forces dragged me to a stalemate, no one refused to stop, the cat's domineering voice sounded again, this time it felt very close to himself, and although the last sound didn't sound like a cat's meow, I knew it must have been made by the cat, so how to listen to how to rest assured, I decided to fight and close my eyes.
Sure enough, the two forces released at the same time, and I fell from a high altitude, but fortunately, I immediately fell onto a slippery thing, and the whole person lay on it, it seemed to be the back of some large animal, although I felt that there were scales on my legs, and there seemed to be hair on my legs, I was even more confused, what saved me? At this moment, I didn't dare to open my eyes for fear that the plum tree would find me again, but the things I was lying on my stomach didn't move, what happened?
Finally I couldn't help but open my eyes, but the world I saw was upside down, just the moment I opened my eyes, the object that carried me began to move rapidly, I just saw the plum tree on the side, she also felt that I opened my eyes at the same time, and immediately flew out of the branches to stop us, two of the forks flew straight towards my eyes, I immediately closed my eyes again, but fortunately, this time the things carrying me did not stop and kept jumping and running, but because I had no object to grasp, the whole person was sliding down in an upside-down posture, The body on this side of the head is getting longer and longer, and all that is left is my scream still hooked on its back, or I should really fall to the ground; But in its current form, it's no wonder that I don't fall to the ground as long as I carry my things a few more times.
"Master Cat, are you the one who carried me? I'm about to fall to the ground! I was so anxious that I wanted to cry, so I asked my question with a crying voice, and the response I got was that the things that were carrying me stopped, and there was no more expression.
"Master Cat is really you, I knew Master Cat that you would come to save me!" I thought that the cat master stopped so that I could continue to climb on his back, but I didn't expect that because of my words, a fork flew into my mouth, and the bitter taste was in my mouth, and I instinctively opened my eyes again, and then I saw not only the behemoth under me but also two sharp forks flying towards my eyes, I was dragged up by the fork in my mouth, I wanted to loosen my mouth but it tightly hooked my front teeth.
"Stop!" It's a deep man's voice, and I look at the behemoth below me out of the corner of my eye, and it speaks? Isn't it a cat master? No, it's definitely not a cat, it's a nine-like! And in the grandfather's story, the only nine is not like only one, that is the ancient beast Di Ting, who was a white dog before his death, because he protected the Jizo Bodhisattva to cross the catastrophe, after the death of the Jizo body, Di Ting never left and waited by the side of Jizo for seven days and seven nights without eating or sleeping to move the heaven and earth, so he was lit by Jizo, and incarnated as Nine Unlike falling into hell with Jizo Bodhisattva, and the reason why I am sure that it is Nine is not like Di Ting, because it is a tiger head, a one-horned dog-eared dragon, a lion's tail of mutton, a unicorn hoof, and the yellowed portrait on the Jizo Sutra is exactly the same. It's just that the real one is black, and it's quite different from the white dog that grandpa said, and it's even more unlikely to be a cat master.
It must be a water product (to be continued......)